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Turing's cathedral : the origins of the digital universe /

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"Legendary historian and philosopher of science George Dyson vividly re-creates the scenes of focused experimentation, incredible mathematical insight, and pure creative genius that gave us computers, digital television, modern genetics, models of stellar evolution--in other words, computer cod...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dyson, George, 1953-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Pantheon Books, 2012.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Computers > History.
Turing machines.
Computable functions.
Random access memory.
Von Neumann, John, > 1903-1957.
Turing, Alan, > 1912-1954.
SCIENCE / General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology.
Table of Contents:
  • 1953
  • Olden Farm
  • Veblen's circle
  • Neumann János
  • MANIAC
  • Fuld 219
  • 6J6
  • V-40
  • Cyclogenesis
  • Monte Carlo
  • Ulam's demons
  • Barricelli's universe
  • Turing's cathedral
  • Engineer's dreams
  • Theory of self-reproducing automata
  • Mach 9
  • The tale of the big computer
  • The thirty-ninth step.